Assessment of genetic diversity in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) germplasm under normal sown condition of Bihar

An experiment was conducted during Rabi 2016-17 at Pulses Research farm, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bhagalpur) to study the existing genetic diversity in thirty six Desi chickpea genotypes under normal sown condition. All the genotypes were grouped into seven clusters as per Ward minimum variance method revealed the presence of considerable amount of genetic diversity in the material with each other for different yield and yield attributing traits.